Partizanka

The Iroquois and Shawnee from the collection of Björn Larsson.
History
Name:
  • SS Shawnee (1927–1946)
  • City of Lisbon (1946–1947)
  • "Partizanka" (1947-1950)
Owner:
  • Clyde Steamship Company (1927–1946)
  • Iberian Start Line (1946–1947)
  • Jugoslavenska Linijska Plovidba (1947-1950)
Builder: Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company
Launched: 18 April 1927
Fate: Ship destroyed by fire when in dry dock in 1949
General characteristics
Tonnage: 6,267 GT
Length: 359 ft
Beam: 62 ft
Propulsion: Geared turbines/twin screws
Speed: 17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph)

Partizanka was a name given by the shipping company Jugoslavenska Linijska Plovidba in 1947 to a ship previously known as the SS Shawnee. The Shawnee was built by the Clyde Line and was launched on the 18th of April 1927 and operated between New York and Miami.[1] During World War II the ship was used to collect stranded American citizens from France in 1939 and was subsequently transformed by the American government into a troop ship. The ship was then bought and refitted as a passenger ship but after a collision with a cargo ship it was to be sold for scrap but was finally bought by Jugoslavenska Linijska Plovidba. The Partizanka carried immigrants to Australia from Split, Yugoslavia, stopping over in Venice.[2][3][4] The Partizanka carried immigrants from the program "Employment of Scientific and Technical Enemy Aliens" which was aimed by Australia to recruit Germans.[5]

Maltese immigrants land in Sydney from the SS Partizanka, 1948

References

  1. ↑ "Clyde Steamship Co. - Iroquois - Shawnee - Algonquin - Mohawk - Seminole - Cherokee". www.timetableimages.com. Retrieved 2017-05-17.
  2. ↑ Stein, Aaron Marc (1959). Never Need an Enemy. Crime Club. p. 22.
  3. ↑ Plowman, Peter (2006). Australian Migrant Ships 1946 - 1977. Women and modern revolution series (illustrated, reprint ed.). Rosenberg Publishing. p. 15. ISBN 1877058408.
  4. ↑ Carvalho, Jorge Santos (2012). As relações Jugoslavo-Portuguesas. Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra / Coimbra University Press. p. 190. ISBN 9892601467.
  5. ↑ Muenstermann, Ingrid (2015). Some Personal Stories of German Immigration to Australia since 1945. Xlibris Corporation. ISBN 1503503135.


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